Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also written novels, plays, collections of criticism, and a discussion of the socialist movement, To The Finland Station...
...nger's politics had long been common knowledge; since 1920 he had been a Socialist. But as editorial boss of the cooperative, Associated Press-like D.P.-A. since its founding in 1949, Sänger had not allowed his Socialist ideas to warp his handling of the news. Still, the very fact that he was a Socialist had constantly bothered the Christian Democratic publishers of the big papers that control the wire service. With key 1961 federal elections drawing on, they finally drummed up enough support on the agency's twelve-man board of directors to sack...
...Russians do it, the evil bird-sorcerer is killed by the Prince, and the lovers walk happily into a rose-colored sky; the fight in which the Prince tears off one of his enemy's wings is a bit of Socialist realism totally out of place in the classical ballet, but it makes for some immensely exciting dance. The effect of these and other changes was to make the Russian Swan Lake a looser, more romantic interpretation than Western observers are accustomed to seeing. On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom...
Heavy Shillelagh. In his campaign against Dever, Herter showed a hard streak that surprised many of his friends. He called Dever a "British-type socialist" (an extra-heavy shillelagh among Boston Irish), belabored his administration as the "most powerful, wasteful, callous, boss-ridden outfit that ever shamed this state." In the 1952 Eisenhower landslide, Herter squeaked into office. Ike's margin in Massachusetts: 208,000; Herter...
...Furthermore," he ventured, "since that 50 per cent of the people are still living at all, I would say that things seem to be coming along all right." In justifying the Socialist accusation that capitalism causes wars, Leland declared, "Some of our most magnificent history has come from wars...